Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Kiniger, Karl (GE Healthcare) wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 05:58:05PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 
>>Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:42:21 +0100, "Kiniger, Karl (GE Healthcare)" said:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Have you tested the ISO on some *OTHER* hardware?  The impression I got
>>>>> was that the cd was *burned* right by ide-cd, but when *read back*, it
>>>>> bollixed things up at the end of the CD.....
>>>>
>>>>Using ide-scsi is enough to get all the data till the real end of the CD.
>>>
>>>
>>>OK, so the problem is that ide-cd is able to *burn* the CD just fine, but 
>>>it
>>>suffers lossage when ide-cd tries to read it back...
>>>
>>>Alan - are the sense-byte patches for ide-cd in a shape to push either 
>>>upstream
>>>or to -mm?
>>
>>The last time I looked at this, the issue was that the user software did 
>>a large read and the ide-cd didn't properly return a small data block 
>>with no error, but rather returned an error with no data. If you get the 
>>size of the ISO image, you can read that with any program which doesn't 
>>try to read MORE than that.
> 
> 
> Not entirely true (at least for me). I actually tried to read the 
> last iso9660 data sector with a small C program (reading 2 kb) and
> it failed to read the sector. Using ide-scsi I was able to read it.....
> 
> sdd (from Joerg Schilling) should not try to read more than ivsize
> bytes (InputVolumeSize) if that argument is given - I did not
> verify with strace though.

I'll try to build a truth table for this, I'm now working with some 
non-iso data sets, so I'm a bit more interested. I would expect read() 
to only try to read one sector, so I'll just do a quick and dirty to get 
the size from the command line, seek and read.

I haven't had a problem using dd to date, as long as I know how long the 
data set was, but I'll try to have results tonight.

Thanks for your additional info on this.

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